How long would it take you to build this?

[rharman]

edit: Dang.... Just saw that @steve w beat me to it

How long would it take you to build this?

Kinda curious if my skills are really as lame as they seem to be. How long would it take you to build this raised bed (excluding filling it), which was my mothers' day gift to my wife? Table saw, cordless Makita circular saw, impact driver, and the normal complement of hand tools. The raised bed...

www.garagejournal.com

Golden rule of project estimating....

How many of <unit> will it take?
Double that
Increase unit-of-measure to the next higher

example:

• Guesstimate: 2 hour project
• Double the 2 - Now it's 4
• Next higher unit of measure from hours - Days
• So.... This project will take 4 days

 

[kaymccampbell]

About half a day. If there's a cut sheet, then less.

 

[Monza Harry]

I feel your timing seems right on! One needs to consider the material manipulation you needed to do, at 4'² easier by far than your 8' length. That is way outside our reach and adds quite a bit of Tom fudgery to balance some pieces as assembly proceeds. My initial estimate was about 8 hours and I'm not "optimized" for this work [or any other for that matter] so considering your lumber repurposing and screened bottom you did (more than) fine! Harry

 

[Zeke]

Two hours.

You're hired.

 

[vwtrey]

You're hired.

I wish. I would love to be a carpenter.

 

[Moss]

I find everything takes me a lot longer than I think it's going to. Even knowing that's how it is I usually still underestimate! I'm not good at working fast though so it's not even worth trying. I'm not sure how many hours that would take me but it would be an entire day and probably most of a weekend I think.

 

[Two Speed]

My wife has lots of experience with our construction projects over 50+ years, including building our first house using just hand tools and local rough saw mill lumber. Her rule of thumb is to take my estimate of time required, double it, and add a week. She is often correct, but over the

I suspect when "we" look at a project, we somehow accurately figure out the actual build time estimate... we just leave out all the incidentals. Walking back and forth with, material moving, refilling our screw/nail container, measure twice, etc. that eats up the time we did not account for.. because, well, thats not actually building it. =-)

 

[bbbarracuda]

I would take at least a day.
Distractions and interruptions really add up.

 

[jar944]

I'd say a few+ hours if done in a similar fashion (predrilled and screwed) less if it was built by a framer (within a 1" and just shot together)

 

[DGersic]

edit: Dang.... Just saw that @steve w beat me to it

How long would it take you to build this?

Kinda curious if my skills are really as lame as they seem to be. How long would it take you to build this raised bed (excluding filling it), which was my mothers' day gift to my wife? Table saw, cordless Makita circular saw, impact driver, and the normal complement of hand tools. The raised bed...

www.garagejournal.com

Golden rule of project estimating....

How many of <unit> will it take?
Double that
Increase unit-of-measure to the next higher

example:

• Guesstimate: 2 hour project
• Double the 2 - Now it's 4
• Next higher unit of measure from hours - Days
• So.... This project will take 4 days

I use this. Or the simpler answer “two weeks” from The Money Pit.

 

[Metal-Marc]

$65 an hour. 4 hours minimum charge plus travel time.